Defining Personality • Larsen & Buss-set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual, that are organized & relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with and adaptations to the intra-psychic, physical, and social environments

Breaking Personality Down • 1. Like all other persons- species-typical characteristics that are features of all human persons; ‘human nature’ • 2. Like some other persons- persons can be compared & contrasted (individual differences or group/cultural differences) • 3. like no other persons- unique